Menantu Pahlawan Negara by Sarjana

Chapter 151

Leslie’s gaze sharpened. He wondered if his mother had told Aurelia about his true identity.

“What else could I be?” he asked coldly.

Aurelia didn’t sense anything odd. After all, Leslie had always been cold and distant.

“Maybe a businessman. You’re just as cunning as one,” Aurelia replied with an awkward laugh. “A cunning businessman, huh?”

Leslie put down his cup and wiped his hands.

Aurelia chuckled but eventually quieted down, realizing that it had been a bad joke. “Sorry.”

“If I’m a cunning businessman, what does that make you? A cunning businessman’s wife?” he asked.

Silence fell over them instantly. They were both rendered speechless as their conversation suddenly shifted to the topic of “wife”.

Aurelia was unsure of how to react to this.

Leslie wiped his mouth and changed the subject. “I’m done eating. It’s settled then. You don’t have to worry about anything. Just be yourself on Friday.”

Aurelia nodded. “Thank you. Sorry for troubling you.”

stood up. Aurelia followed suit

left the restaurant, the sun was shining

was too tall, and she had to stand on tiptoes even though she

head bumped into the top of the umbrella. He sighed and stopped, then took the umbrella from Aurelia’s

“I’ll hold it.”

Aurelia said, looking up at him with a

her smile, Leslie’s

glow. Her lustrous black hair, fair skin, and gentle smile all

that he

himself

shadows on

she was reminded of the three years she had spent

it had rained, Seth would offer to pick her up. But by the time they

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he would complain incessantly about getting a

I hadn’t come to pick you up. I’m doing this because I

course,” she had

time, a person would tend to magnify the other person’s virtues and overlook the negative

coming to pick her up in the heavy rain was an act of love. But she had ignored the fact that the umbrella

pastries wafted over as she was lost in

was coming from,